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Suffolk
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independent city in Virginia, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- Independent city
- 428.91 sq mi (1,110.86 km )
- Land
- 399.16 sq mi (1,033.82 km )
- Water
- 29.75 sq mi (77.05 km )
- Elevation
- 39 ft (12 m)
- Estimate 2025
- 104,699
- Density
- 236.31/sq mi (91.238/km )
- Metro
- 1,799,674
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( EST )
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 ( EDT )
- Zip codes
- 23432-23439
- Area codes
- 757, 948
- Fips code
- 51-76432
- Website
- www .suffolkva .us
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Suffolk ( locally /ˈsʌfʊk/ SUF-uuk) is an independent city in Virginia, United States. As of 2020, the population was 94,324. It is the 10th-most populous city in Virginia, the largest city in Virginia by boundary land area as well as the 14th-largest in the country. Suffolk is located in the Hampton Roads metropolitan area. This also includes the independent cities of Chesapeake, Hampton, Newport News, Norfolk, Portsmouth, and Virginia Beach, and smaller cities, counties, and towns of Hampton Roads. With miles of waterfront property on the Nansemond and James rivers, present-day Suffolk was formed in 1974 after consolidating with Nansemond County and the towns of Holland and Whaleyville.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Suffolk” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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